| Bad Power Deborah Biancotti Bad Power celebrates the worst kind of powers both supernatural and otherwise, in the interlinked tales of five people — and how far they’ll go. Read more » | | Love and Romanpunk Tansy Rayner Roberts The world is in greater danger than you ever suspected. Women named Julia are stronger than they appear. History is not what you think it is. Read more » | | Nightsiders Sue Isle A teenage girl stolen from her family as a child; a troupe of street actors who affect their new culture with memories of the old; a boy born into the wrong body; and a teacher who is pushed into the role of guide tell the story of The Nightside. Read more » | | Thief of Lives Lucy Sussex The four stories showcased here could not be more different, one from another, but collectively they constitute an excellent introduction to the talents of the incomparable Lucy Sussex. – Karen Joy Fowler Read more » | | Showtime Narrelle M. Harris Family drama can be found anywhere: in kitchens, in cafes. Derelict hotels, showground rides. Even dungeons far below ruined Hungarian castles. (Okay, especially in Hungarian dungeons.) Read more » | | Secret Lives of Books Rosaleen Love The much anticipated all new original collection of short stories from one of Australia’s science fiction masters and winner of the Chandler Award for outstanding achievement in Australian science fiction. Read more » | | The Female Factory Lisa Hannett and Angela Slatter Procreation is big business. Children are a commodity few women can afford. Read more » | | Angel Rising Dirk Flinthart What odd coincidence brings Proctor George Gordon to the Sunrise Isles to be confronted by ninja and warrior nuns? Who is the strange but compelling amnesiac girl he finds in the convent, and what do the offworld nations want with her? And how can he really be sure who to trust? Read more » | | Bleed Peter M. Ball Ten years ago Miriam Aster learnt a simple lesson: when a faerie asks you to kill someone, the worst thing you can say is sure. Today she’s about to learn that worse things can happen when the past refuses to stay behind you. Read more » | | Horn Peter M. Ball There’s a dead girl in a dumpster and a unicorn on the loose – and no-one knows how bad that combination can get better than Miriam Aster. Read more » | | Roadkill/Siren Beat Robert Shearman and Tansy Rayner Roberts Two novelettes – Roadkill by Robert Shearman and Siren Beat by Tansy Rayner Roberts – published in tête-bêche format form the first Twelfth Planet Press Double. Read more » | | Above/Below Stephanie Campisi and Ben Peek A city has fallen from the sky.
In the wreckage, two men – Devian Lell, a window cleaner in the floating cities of Loft, and Eli Kurran, a security guard in one of the polluted, ground-based cities of Dirt – will find their lives changed. Read more » | | A Book of Endings Deborah Biancotti Deborah Biancotti’s first collection of short stories is jaw-droppingly good… Read more » | | Glitter Rose Marianne de Pierres The Glitter Rose stories are set against the background of Carmine Island (an island reminiscent of Stradbroke Island, Queensland) where a decade ago spores from deep in the ocean blew in, by a freak of nature, and settled on the island. Read more » | | 2012 Alisa Krasnostein and Ben Payne (eds) There are dark visions of water and oil shortages, terrorism, climate change, global and regional politics, the limiting of personal freedoms such as free speech, struggles with the ethics of genetic engineering and bioengineering, alien conspiracies, and the impact of technology on industry. Read more » | | New Ceres Nights Alisa Krasnostein and Tehani Wessely (eds) New Ceres Nights presents thirteen exciting stories of rebellion, debauchery, decadence, subterfuge and murder set against the backdrop of powdered wigs, coffee houses, duels and balls that is the shared world of New Ceres. Read more » | | Sprawl Alisa Krasnostein (ed) Sprawl is an exciting new original anthology giving readers from around the world a unique glimpse into the strange, dark, and often wondrous magics that fill the days and nights of Australia’s dreaming cities and towns, homes and parks, and most of all, its endlessly stretching suburbs. Read more » | | Through Splintered Walls Kaaron Warren Country road, city street, mountain, creek.
These are stories inspired by the beauty, the danger, the cruelty, emptiness, loneliness and perfection of the Australian landscape.
‘Every Warren story is a trip with no map.’ – Gemma Files Read more » | | Salvage Jason Nahrung Seeking to salvage her foundering marriage in an isolated beach house, Melanie must choose which future she wants, before the dark tide pulls her under … forever. Read more » | | Cracklescape Margo Lanagan These stories from four-time World Fantasy Award winner Margo Lanagan are all set in Australia, a myth-soaked landscape both stubbornly inscrutable and crisscrossed by interlopers’ dreamings. Explore four littoral and liminal worlds, a-crackle with fears and possibilities. Read more » | | The Company Articles of Edward Teach/Angaelien Apocalypse Thoraiya Dyer and Matthew Chrulew Learning to live inside your own skin is hard enough, but what if you were thrown back in time, to another body; a different world…?
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An alien story you’ve never seen before …
Read more » | | Asymmetry Thoraiya Dyer ‘The combination of strange and familiar gives Dyer’s fiction the power wielded by the best SF. The stories unerringly find the human inside the bizarre. These are unsettling, poignant, marvellous. Read them. You will be glad you did.’ – Nancy Kress Read more » | | Twelve Planets eBook Subscription
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